1 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落的开头语续写两段话，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home, and I told her everything. “No Santa Claus?” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don’t believe it. “Now, put on your coat, and let’s go.”

“Go where, Grandma?” I asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. “Take this money, and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.

I was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, holding that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker, who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. I knew that because he never went out for break during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough, and he didn’t have a coat. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I chose a red one, which looked really warm, and he would like that.

“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid ten dollars down. “Yes.”

The nice lady smiled at me, put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:

That evening, Grandma helped me wrap (包裹) the coat in Christmas paper.

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Paragraph2:

Grandma and I waited breathlessly for Bobby Decker’s front door to open.

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2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Last year at Christmas time, my wife, three children and I were on our way from Paris to Nice. Somehow everything went wrong. Our hotels were “tourist traps” and our rented car broke down. On Christmas Eve, when we checked into a dirty hotel in Nice, there was no Christmas spirit in our hearts.

It was raining and cold when we went out to eat. We found a small restaurant poorly decorated for the holiday. Only five tables in the restaurant were taken. There were two German couples, two French families, and an American sailor, by himself. They were eating in stony silence except the sailor. He was writing a letter, and a half-smile lighted his face. In the corner a piano player was listlessly (无精打采地) playing Christmas music.

All of us were interrupted by an old French flower woman through the front door. She had a worn overcoat and her old shoes were wet. Carrying her basket of flowers, she went from one table to another. No one bought any. Exhausted and sad, she sat down at a table.

The sailor finished his meal and got up to leave. Putting on his coat, he walked over to the flower woman’s table.

“Merry Christmas,” he said, smiling and picking out a handful of flowers. “How much are they?”

“Two francs, sir.”

The sailor put a twenty franc note in the woman’s hand.

“I don’t have change, sir,” she said. “I’ll get some from the waiter.”

“No, ma’am,” said the sailor, leaning over and kissing the ancient cheek. “This is my Christmas present for you.”

注意：
1．所续写短文的词数应为80左右；
2．续写部分的开头语已为你写好；

Then the sailor headed for our table with the flowers in his hand.

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3 . There is more of a connection between food and culture than you may think. On an individual level, we grow up eating the food of our culture. It becomes a part of who we are. Many associate food from our childhood with warm feelings and good memories and it ties us to our families, holding a special and personal value for us. Food from our families often becomes the comfort food we seek as adults in times of frustration and stress.

On a large scale, traditional food is an important part of culture. It also operates as an expression of cultural identity. Immigrants bring it wherever they go, and it is a symbol of pride in their culture and means of coping with homesickness.

Many immigrants open their own restaurants and serve traditional dishes. However, the food does not remain exactly the same. Some materials needed to make traditional dishes may not be readily available, so the taste and flavour can be different from what they would prepare in their home countries. Additionally, immigrants do not only sell dishes to people from the same countries as them, but to people from different countries. Therefore, they have to make small changes in the original dishes to cater to a wider range of customers. Those changes can create new flavours that still keep the cultural significance of the dishes.

We should not only embrace our heritage (传统) through our culture’s food, but also become more informed about other cultures by trying their food. It is important to remember that each dish has a special place in the culture to which it belongs, and is special to those who prepare it. Food is a window on culture, and it should be treated as such.

1. What’s the function of food mentioned in the text?

A．To help motivate homesickness.

B．To show cultural identity.

C．To reflect a country’s history.

D．To show a community’s superiority.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The specific traditional food.

B．The national culture.

C．A traditional expression of food.

D．The old-fashioned taste.

3. Why do some immigrants have to change the original dishes in their restaurants?

A．To attach cultural importance to their dishes.

B．To announce the beginning of their life on foreign soil.

C．To make the dishes popular among customers.

D．To present their own food culture in a new way.

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards different food cultures?

A．Negative.

B．Balanced.

C．Unfair.

D．Unchangeable.

4 . A British friend told me he couldn’t understand why Chinese people love eating sunflower seeds(嗑瓜子) as a snack so much.“I’ve met a lot of older Chinese and many have a crack in their front teeth, I believe that’s from cracking the seeds,”he said.

I had never noticed the habit, but once he mentioned it, I suddenly became more aware, I realized that whenever I’m watching TV or typing a report, I always start mindlessly cracking sunflower seeds. My friend doesn’t like sunflower seeds, and, to him, it seems unnecessary to work so much just to get one small seed.

When we were young, the whole family would usually get together for Chinese New Year. Then, we all lived close to one another, usually in a small city, and sometimes even neighbors would go door-to-door on Chinese New Year’s Eve to check out what every household was making.

I remember my parents would be in the kitchen cooking. Out in the living room, a large table would already be laid out, complete with fancy tablecloth, ready-made dumpling fillings, and dishes full of candy, fruits and sunflower seeds. Some of the dishes were to be offered to our ancestors later, while others were for neighbors and children to eat before the evening feast. I must have learned how to crack sunflower seeds back then.

I don’t think it’s right to criticize one’s choice in food or eating habits, no matter how strange they may seem.

It’s not only in China. When I went abroad, I found people had all sorts of strange habits when it came to food. In Denmark, they put salted red fish on bread and eat it for dinner, no matter how much it ruins your breath. They think it’s a delicacy(美味佳肴), and it’s connected to their certain culture. I think it’s a wonderful tradition.

1. What did the writer become aware of?

A．She had ever typed a report about seeds.

B．She had various snacks while watching TV.

C．She had a habit of cracking sunflower seeds.

D．She damaged her teeth by eating sunflower seeds.

2. What does the writer prove by mentioning Chinese New Year?

A．The families get together for it.	B．Eating sunflower seeds is related to it.
C．The traditions of celebrating it disappear.	D．Children can eat delicious food on that day.

3. What’s the writer’s attitude to Denmark’s way of eating bread?

A．Indifferent.

B．Critical.

C．Understandable.

D．Doubtful.

4. What idea does the writer want to express in this passage?

A．It is good to form healthy eating habits.

B．Eating habits come from a certain culture.

C．Changing your eating habits will change your life.

D．One kind of food doesn’t necessarily suit everyone.

5 . 假如你是李华，计划本周日和同学去敬老院（nursing home）陪老人们过重阳节（the Double Ninth Festival）。得知外教Lucy对中国传统节日活动感兴趣，请你给她写封邮件，邀请她一同前往，内容包括：
1.周日早上8点学校门口集合，下午5点返回；
2.活动：包饺子、表演节目等。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 邮件格式已给出；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Lucy,
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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.

Traditional Chinese culture is beginning to capture the attention of the world. Kung fu,       1     (special), has had a great effects     2     the millions of people who first learned about China through it. From that, they may come to China and learn about some other     3     (aspect) of this culture. Other Asian nations have long known about the     4     (great) of ancient Chinese culture. Their own cultures are     5     mix of native ones and those Chinese characteristics. Korea and Japan long ago adopted Confucianism, something that continued today even as it     6     (challenge)by pop culture. This strength comes from the ideas     7     (give)in the Four Books of Confucianism, which built upon the ideas of an even     8     (much)ancient period codified (编纂)in the Five Classics. From them, the West learns     9     is uniquely Chinese, for example, feng shui. So far China has taken steps     10     (further) this spread of its culture by establishing Chinese Cultural Centers in such places as the United States and Europe.

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The first Edinburgh International Festival     1    (hold) 71 years ago. Its first big success came in the following year     2    an adaptation of The Thrie Estaites was performed. From then on, the Festival has     3    (gradual) grown to become one of the most popular arts festivals in the world. As the founders of the Festival believed, the Festival programs have enriched the     4    (culture) life of Britain and even Europe.

The Festival focuses on the fields of music, art, dance and theatre.     5    (bring) together the best artists from around the world, the Festival has earned     6    good reputation (名声), which has done much to draw the visitors’ attention     7     the various shows that take place all over the city.

Each year during the summer     8    (month), Edinburgh becomes the world’s Festival City. It is the huge range of artistic events, performances and exhibitions that     9    (make) Edinburgh unforgettable. It makes you feel that there is always something else happening around the corner which you are missing and on any given night of the Festival, you can choose     10    (watch) "The Girl on the Sofa", a play by Joan Fosse, and the opera Parsifal, among many other options.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, are a pair of small equal-length sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating. We Chinese eat     1     chopsticks. It is believed the first chopsticks     2     (develop) over 5,000 years ago in China. The     3     (early) evidence of a pair of chopsticks made out of bronze was excavated (出土) from the Ruins of Yin near Anyang, Henan province, dating back to roughly 1,200 BC. Chopsticks,     4     are roughly the same in size throughout China, can be made of a wide range of     5     (material), including bamboo, wood, plastic, silver and gold.

Chopsticks play     6     important role in Chinese food culture. Chinese chopsticks are usually 9 to 10 inches long. They are round on the eating end which represents heaven, and the other end is square which stands for earth. This is because     7     (maintain) an enough food supply is the greatest concern between heaven and earth.

There is an old Chinese custom making chopsticks part of a girl’s dowry (嫁妆), since the pronunciation of kuaizi is similar     8     the words for “quick” and “son”.

Chopsticks are     9     (frequent) used in daily life. They have become more than a kind of tableware and have established a set of etiquette (礼仪) and customs of     10    (they) own.

9 . 请以“Promoting traditional Chinese festivals”为题，写一篇英语文章，探讨推广中国传统节日的重要性和方法。
内容包括：
1. 推广中国传统节日有何意义。

2. 如何开展推广活动（如政府、学校、媒体、个人层面）。
注意：
1.词数120左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

Promoting traditional Chinese festivals

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10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式

Festivals have a wide range of origins (起源). However, no matter how     1     (difference) they seem, the spirit of     2    (share) joy, gratitude and love is common. Of all the     3     (tradition) festivals, the harvest festival is one of     4     most popular festivals, which is celebrated after all the crops have been gathered in. At the same time, though customs play a significant role in festivals, they can change over time. For example, some Chinese cities no longer allow people     5    (light) firecrackers(鞭炮), as they can increase air pollution. These days, festivals are becoming more and more commercial (商业的), with businesses take advantage     6     celebrations. Online shopping websites and social media have made     7     much easier to spend more on gifts. People have divided opinions on it. All in all, festivals reflect people's beliefs and attitudes     8     life. They are occasions     9     let us spend time with family. If you study festivals     10    (careful), you will find different cultures have a lot in common.